What: Digital Story. We are creating our digital story about the Civil War. We are teaching a 5 lesson unit on the battles, causes and end to this war. We thought the digital story would be a great finale to the unit.
I was very moved by the movies that you presented to us in class. I can't believe how much can can be learned and felt through images and music. The Holocaust story was haunting and tragic, but it is a good reminder that it did happen. The Jewish people were treated horribly. Their legacy will continue to live on through our REMEMBERING. The next tragedy would be if we FORGOT what happened to them. Maja Angelou has said, "When you know better, you do better." I hope that we all continue to learn about what went on and make sure that we do better and never allow it to happen again.
So What: We have decided to start by putting our project into "chapters". We will have an introduction, then follow with battles, information, slavery and ending. We are grabbing images and have located music. We found the music on PBS' website on the Civil War. We thought the music would be a perfect fit.
Now What: I plan to use this technology on the units that I teach when I become a teacher. It's a great way to introduce a topic or an excellent way to wrap up a topic as we'll be doing during our field experience with our Civil War digital story. I think 5th and 6th graders would love participating in the production of a project like this. I plan to learn all I can so that I can pass it on and inspire my future students.
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